An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s1.566.2

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in private the [Pratismṛti] science, etc., and sent him away to Indra to obtain his weapons.—§ 331 (Kairātap.): III, 38, 1520, 1527, 1533, 1536, 1537: Arjuna on his way to Indra practised austerities for four months. 39, 1558, (1576), 1582, 1584, 1601: Combat between A. and Çiva in the guise of a Kirāta, etc.; Çiva gave him "cakshus."—§ 332 (do.): III, 39: A. worshipped Çiva, (1624).—§ 333 (do.): III, 40, 1643, 1656, 1661: Çiva said to A.: "Thou wast in thy former life Nara, the friend of Nārāyaṇa; in Badarī thou wast engaged in ascetic austerities for thousands of years; the Gāṇḍīva (which I got from thee by my power of illusion) is the bow with which thou assistedst Kṛshṇa in chastising the Dānavas during the coronation of Indra." When granted a boon, Arjuna asked Çiva to give him the Pāçupata weapon named Brahmaçiras (c). Having purified himself, he was instructed in its use on the condition that he should not hurl it against any human being, for then it would destroy the universe. The earth trembled, etc.; the gods and Dānavas beheld the weapon in its embodied form by the side of Arjuna. Then Arjuna was touched by Çiva, and all that was bad in his body was dispelled. Having said to Arjuna, "Go thou into heaven," Çiva went up into the skies accompanied by Umā.—§ 334 (do.): III, 41, 1665, 1672, 1676, 1680, 1705, 1711, 1713: Then the Lokapālas, etc., came to A. on the Himavat; they granted him "vision" (dṛshṭi) that he might see them;